Example sentences of "[vb past] the whole thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She passed the whole thing over to me . |
| 2 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 3 | When we could n't revive it , it made the whole thing worse for them . |
| 4 | Editors often cut a vital sentence , too , and made the whole thing unbalanced . |
| 5 | The fact that we had definite goals on each trek , such as reaching a summit by sunrise , made the whole thing feel like an expedition . |
| 6 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 7 | I made the whole thing up from the start |
| 8 | The Unwins themselves — and it was impossible for anyone to grudge them their moment — said over and over that it was great , just great that one of the horses actually on the train had won one of the races , it made the whole thing worthwhile , and the whole party , drifting into the dining car in true party mood , agreed and applauded . |
| 9 | Many ‘ systemised ’ tanks combine all three ( as do external filters if you choose to load them that way ) but now in the BioLife unit Hagen have put together what is virtually the filter unit from a small systemised tank , complete with self-contained heaterstat , added the sort of wet-and-dry trickle filtration usually only available in under the tank units , and made the whole thing suitable for a three foot tank . |
| 10 | Most of them , though , were sympathetic and some , like Jeremy Paxman on Breakfast Time , made the whole thing that much less of an ordeal . |
| 11 | I did not think He would mind this , especially if I made the whole thing into a sort of combined barby stroke burnt sacrifice . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you saying Nicola made the whole thing up ? ’ |
| 13 | Each time he was about to embark on a new affair , he bought Jessica an expensive present — as if that made the whole thing right . |
| 14 | When occasionally they asked her what was the marketing strategy or the business plan and she said , openly , that there never had been one , her patent naturalness and honesty made the whole thing appear even more of a fairy story . |
| 15 | She longed to say : you 're lying , you made the whole thing up so you would n't get scolded for breaking the dish . |
| 16 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 17 | His sudden talk of alibis made the whole thing sound serious . |
| 18 | The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich . |
| 19 | Especially as the childminder had n't seen what had happened , so she did n't realize why he was carrying on like he was , made the whole thing a little bit tricky , can I give you this ? |
| 20 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 21 | I refused the offer of an ice-cream but he bought an extra-large cone for himself and then , once we were seated , inserted the whole thing , wafer and all , into his mouth . |
| 22 | ‘ I expect he timed the whole thing with a stopwatch , ’ said Greg . |
| 23 | ‘ I got the whole thing up and running . |
| 24 | I got the whole thing under control . |
| 25 | Weeks of it because the after the put in all his markings the admiralty came and checked the whole thing then . |
| 26 | ‘ Lots of people sent memos saying ‘ I know we planned the whole thing for September or October but we are going out in July ’ , and it simply was n't ready , ’ he said . |
| 27 | She had assumed that Harry Martin was behind it all , but who was to say if Luke Calder had n't coldly and calculatedly planned the whole thing ? |
| 28 | I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud . |
| 29 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 30 | Trainee chef Tom Wilkinson , 20 , said : ‘ The action sequences were entertaining and I rated the whole thing as pretty good . ’ |